Violence is slaughtering innocent people, including children. Not damaging the weapons of an Israeli arms company complicit in genocide.

Parts of France could see temperatures breaking 45°C (109°F) early next week. Source: www.tropicaltidbits.com

Jesus!

BBC banner headline 'car park income down' after charges go up. Then they say the important bit quietly. Footfall has risen. More people are now coming into the city centre. Think on what that does for town centre spending BBC, we'll wait.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@johnwalterswildife.bsky.social Hi John , I was wondering if you could tell me what’s going on here ? Many thanks

93% decline in breeding abundance since 1986, and productivity currently at appallingly low levels. Explains the poor counts these days during autumn migration.

Huh? 🤯😮

The Great Dartmoor Pony Cull Conspiracy of 2026 is such horseshit. Nobody is proposing a cull, FFS! Currently being whipped up on Musk's hellsite by the Leader of the Opposition, who clearly has nothing better to do. Reality: www.dartmoornature.org.uk/post/ponies-...

In 2004 a human rights barrister & part of the appeal defence for the "Fairford Five", made a defence similar to that of the Palestine Action activists who broke into RAF Brize Norton last year. His name? Keir Starmer - who now even labels people who support these conscientious acts as terrorists.

@nenature.bsky.social @commonbynature.bsky.social does the NHSN library have this please? Can you help?

Reference request - RIBBONS, B.W., 1976. Ledum in Britain. Glasg. Nat. 19: 219-233. This volume isn't on @biodivlibrary.bsky.social - does anyone have it?

What this means is that anyone involved in direct action protests could be sentenced as terrorists, whether or not they belong to a banned group and whether or not terrorism is *even mentioned at the trial*. Without informing the jury, the judge secretly marks the case as "terrorism connection".

Who knew that this could happen? I didn't. But it turns out that the Sentencing Act 2020 allows judges to send people down for crimes for which they have not been tried or convicted, with far longer sentences and far more draconian conditions than they would otherwise face. It gets worse - read on.

Even more disturbing is what happened at Woolwich Crown Court last week, where the Crown prosecutors chose not to try Palestine Action protesters as terrorists, as the jury would be unlikely to convict. They were convicted as ordinary criminals. But then the judge *sentenced* them as terrorists.

A massive shift is taking place here. Well-organised far-right terrorism is being treated as ordinary criminality, while conscience-driven protests against genocide are treated as terrorism. A highly conservative (and deeply weird and fantastical) Court of Appeal ruling embeds this shift.

One more note. The media's near-silence on this astonishing legal shift is almost as disturbing as the issue itself. This vast change is covered in most outlets way down the bulletins, with almost no explanation or context. This is how democracy dies: not with a bang but a whimper. Thank you.

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Influential Labour Lord Secretly Met With German Far-Right Politician Who Said Not All Nazi SS Members Were Criminals" Lord Glasman held a private meeting in Parliament last week with the AfD's Maximilian Krah, reports Zeteo UK's new political editor Shehab Khan:

If you say “I support Palestine Action”, they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV.

Birders job at Natural England: Senior Specalist in Terrestrial Birds www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Ah yes, if only we knew the special stuff that only the government knows, we would agree with everything it does. Says every authoritarian state, everywhere.

We are now recruiting for a 3 year NERC-funded postdoc to study the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in migratory birds. Based in the Wild Microbiome Lab @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall.

Former Israeli Defense Minister Bogi Ya’alon: "What’s Happening Now Is Jewish Terrorism - Israelis act like in Mein Kampf - This Is Jewish Terror! Ethnic Cleansing Is Happening In Gaza" Wow!!

Ticks may be tiny, but their bite can have big consequences. In his latest article, Ben Dolphin takes a closer look at ticks and what we all need to look out for. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/ticks-a...

I guess I'll end by saying this: Jo Cox's murder was a watershed moment. British Politics today is the way it is because an MP lost her life in a white supremacist terrorist attack. And the government did nothing about it. We don't get to where we are today without that. End/

I know I should finish this thread in some academic way but all I can think about is that it's been ten years. Ten years. Look at how low this country has sunk. Look around and see how no lessons have been learned. Look around and tell me this is not a white supremacist country. Ten years. 7/

There is a direct line from Jo Cox's murder and the pogrom in Belfast. Both are acts of terrorism, but neither of them register as such. Both share Nigel Farage as a mouthpiece of white supremacist hatred. Both elicited little to no reaction from the government. 6/

Searingly important thread 👇

10 years ago, days before the Brexit referendum. There was a deadly terrorist attack in Britain. Afterwards, nothing happened and very few people today will refer to what happened by its name. 1/

7-day forecast 22.06.2026 Europe What an incredible map for next week WOW Europe will probably hit 45c in June How cool is that? It was so fun to warm the 🌎 This before #ElNino ...So fun #ClimateCrisis

There is now clear evidence that the Great Israeli Real Estate event had unlawful activity at it. I've written to the Mayor of London to ask what he intends to do about it. This needs to be escalated immediately.

Nigel Farage spends all day complaining about wasteful public spending and town hall inefficiency, but his own party's back-of-a-fag-packet candidate vetting is actively draining council budgets. Emergency snap by-elections aren't free. Cheers for the bill, Reform. 🤡🎪👇

David Dimbleby, hosted the EU referendum results show on BBC One and BBC News on the night of 23-24 June back in 2016. A decade later, all we've seen is division and damage. So let's make sure the next 10 years are defined by trust and cooperation.

Believe in the UK in Europe.

Because, as everyone knows, protest works best when it's approved by the government. The entire judgement is based on a series of fairytales: about democracy, the benign nature of the state, the efficacy of polite, obedient and invisible protest and the harmonious course of English history.

If the Suffragettes were active today, there is not a shadow of a doubt that Keir Starmer's government would have banned them as a terrorist group, and insisted there are plenty of other ways in which women can register their dissent. Why don't they write letters to their MPs?

The Court of Appeal judgement on Palestine Action is frankly bonkers. It says PA is not "a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open." Right: the arson, bombings, slashings etc were all planned in open meetings in Parliament Square 🙄🧵

Help please. I've been trying to discover whether any government minister has used the word "terrorism" in relation to the riots in Belfast and Southampton. I've drawn a blank, but I want to be sure. Has anyone seen or heard such a statement? Many thanks.

Huda Ammori on #C4News: "We need to continue to fight against this.. its a huge attack on our free speech, our right to protest, & that we need to continue to resist against this ban & the use of terror legislation in general against protesters"

English law is not my forte but “causing annoyance” does not suggest “threats and abuse”, to me. Perhaps we need a new offence of “badgering your MP about things he finds silly and tiresome”.

Twelve months of hell for that poor woman, Peter Kyle probably never thought about it again, and when the prosecution was ordered to pay her costs, that money didn't come from Peter's pocket.

The prosecution offered no evidence? In a sane world, the CPS would face severe consequences for dragging this poor woman to court and then just running away.

Arrested at 4.33am? We conducting dawn raids on people for writing to their MP?

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...

Absolute chancers. Nationalise water. Now. And keep it in public hands forever.

Discarded and abandoned fishing gear— kills hundreds of thousands of marine mammals and millions of seabirds annually An estimated 640,000 to 800,000 tonnes of fishing gear are lost or discarded into the world's oceans every year www.wwf.org.ec?365018/Ghost...

Rosebank contains enough to produce over 200 million tonnes of CO2, more than the combined annual emissions of 28 countries. Opening up these oilfields will do nothing to improve energy security or bring down bills, as any fuels will be sold at global prices on the world market.

It's not just Nino 3.4 heating up because of the growing El Nino -- the entire global ocean is seeing record daily sea surface temperatures. Yesterday saw the 14th consecutive new daily record. Here are the updated daily color stripes:

Zionised Britain clearly evidenced. #palestine #Zionism #starmer #UK-government